 | Doing Excellent Social Research with Documents: Practical Examples and Guidance for Qualitative Researchers Subjects: Global Development; Geography; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Research Methods in Global Development; Political Research Methods; Sociology & Social Policy; Human Geography; Anthropology - Soc Sci; Human Geography - Research Methods and Techniques; Ethnography & Methodology; Research Methods - Soc. Policy; Social Theory; In today's society we increasingly create and consume written content and images. This includes a range of sources, from social media posts to records held within organisations, and everything in between, including news articles, blogs, shopping lists and official government documents. Critically reading these 'documents' can help us to understand a huge amount about society. Doing Excellent Social Research with Documents includes guidance on how to 'read between the lines', and provides an overview of six research projects which use documents as data. Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138038653_oachapter8.pdf Aimee Grant is a Qualitative Researcher at the Centre for Trials Research, Cardiff University. She undertakes research on health, pregnancy and motherhood, drawing on a range of disciplinary fields including critical public health, sociology, human geography and cultural studies. |
